I had been reading and pinning and swooning over flexible seating for a while and this year I decided to take the plunge (more like dip my toes in the water....the plunge is coming soon!).
I started off by deciding what type of seating I wanted to try out the most. Would it be bean bags? Wobble Chairs? Standing Desk? Yoga Balls?
For my kiddos, I thought wobble chairs would be the best! I set up a project on Donor's Choose & wahlah! It was funded.
Four wobble chairs entered my kindergarten classroom...
(that kind of sounds like the start of a bad joke...)
I kept reminding myself, I am just dipping my toes, dipping, dipping, dipping. I put the wobble chairs at one of my extra tables. Tip 1: Start with just one option. All the kids still had their assigned seats but they were allowed to work on wobble chairs during Daily 5 or other independent work time if they felt they needed to sit somewhere different than their regular chair.
No surprise, the chairs were always getting used.
Test run = success.
I am ready for the plunge! I created a new Donors Choose project & it was funded. I have new seating coming in this week (along with some seating I ordered on my own) and flexible seating is about to take off in our kindergarten classroom (fingers crossed)!
Looking for flexible seating ideas for your own classroom? Follow my pinterest board - Flexible Seating is Grrreat!
More to come as I work through this new process!
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